USE OF CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS AND HALONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SEC. 356. USE OF CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS AND HALONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (a) Chlorofluorocarbons Emission Reduction.—The Secretary of Defense shall formulate and carry out, through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, a program to reduce the unnecessary release of chlorofluorocarbons (hereinafter in this section referred to as “CFCs”) and halons into the atmosphere in connection with maintenance operations and training and testing practices of the Department of Defense. (b) Report.—(1) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report describing the program the Secretary proposes to carry out pursuant to subsection (a). The Secretary shall specify in the report the reduction goals that are attainable on the basis of known technology, including the use of refinger ant recovery systems currently available. The Secretary shall include in the report a schedule for meeting those goals. The Secretary shall also include in such report reduction goals that can be achieved only with the use of new technology and assess the technologies and investment that will be required to attain those goals within a five-year period. (2) Before the report required under paragraph (1) is submitted to the committees named in such paragraph, the Secretary shall transmit a copy of the report to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for comment. (c) DOD Requirements for CFCs.—(1) Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish an advisory committee to be known as the “CFC Advisory Committee” (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Committee”). The Committee shall be composed of not more than 15 members, with an equal number of representatives from the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, and defense contractors. Members representing defense contractors shall be contractors that supply the Department of Defense with products or equipment that require the use of CFCs. 103 STAT. 1426 (2) It shall be the function of the Committee to study (A) the use of CFCs by the Department of Defense and by contractors in the performance of contracts for the Department of Defense, and (B) the cost and feasibility of using alternative compounds for CFCs or using alternative technologies that do not require the use of CFCs. (3) Within 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide the Committee with a list of all military specifications, standards, and other requirements that specify the use of CFCs. (4) Within 150 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide the Committee with a list of all military specifications, standards, and other requirements that do not specify use of CFCs but cannot be met without the use of CFCs. (d) Report—Not later than September 30, 1990, the Secretary shall submit to the committees named in subsection (b) a report containing the results of the study by the Committee. The report shall— (1) identify cases in which the Committee found that substitutes for CFCs could be made most expeditiously; (2) identify the feasibility and cost of substituting compounds or technologies for CFC uses referred to in subsection (c)(3) and estimate the time necessary for completing the substitution; (3) identify CFC uses referred to in subsection (c)(4) for which substitutes are not currently available and indicate the reasons substitutes are not available; (4) describe the types of research programs that should be undertaken to identify substitute compounds or technologies for CFC uses referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (c) and estimate the cost of the program; (5) recommend procedures to expedite the use of substitute compounds and technologies offered by contractors to replace CFC uses; (6) estimate the earliest date on which CFCs will no longer be required for military applications; and (7) estimate the cost of revising military specifications for the use of substitutes for CFCs, the additional costs resulting from modification of Department of Defense contracts to provide for the use of substitutes for CFCs, and the cost of purchasing new equipment and reverification necessitated by the use of substitutes for CFCs.